When Sara Olsher was diagnosed with cancer at the age of 34 her first thought was how to tell her sixyearold daughter without scaring her. As it turned out explaining cancer was only the beginning. Treatment is long and causes a lot of ongoing changes in the familyall of which can be confusing scary and isolating for kids.Join Mia and her stuffed giraffe Stuart as they explain the science of cancer and how a loved ones diagnosis and treatment affects a kids daytoday life.ampnbspWhat Happens When Someone I Love Has Cancerampnbspuses bright and fun illustrations to show how cells can turn into cancer and helps reduce confusion about how cancer treatment affects a person and the kids in their lives.Most of the time we do the same things in the mornings. We wake up. We eat breakfast. I like apples. Stuart only eats bugs. ... when something big changes what we do each day can change too. Stuart wants to know what happens to our days when someone we love has cancer.Aimed at families with kids ages 4 to 10 this method of teaching is based on decades of solid science about how kids learn and cope with the major daytoday changes that result from issues like cancer.ampnbspWhat Happens When Someone I Love Has Cancerampnbspis the perfect book for families that want to explain what cancer actually is and how it affects a kids life and applies to mothers fathers grandparents siblings and many types of cancer including breast cancer colon cancer blood cancers such as leukemia and bone cancers.ampnbspBy creating a routine that kids can see and understand parents can restore a sense of safety and predictability in their kids lives helping them to be more resilient in the face of lifes inevitable challenges.ampnbspWhat Happens When Someone I Love Has Cancerampnbsphelps families that want to reduce their kids anxiety surrounding a scary diagnosis. It aims to empower kids with knowledge which is proven to help kids through traumatic situations.Meet Mia and StuartWith her messy pigtails